The spat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama over Iran shows how out-of-touch Israel's leader is with world opinion.

Here’s a statistic from an official Pentagon presentation, recently revealed at a security industry conference in Augusta, Georgia. The subject was American military interventions since the end of World War II. The figures: 44 interventions – one a year – between 1945 and 1989; and another 100 – three to four a year – since the end of the Cold War.

out of all the interventions how many stable and prosperous democracies
have we created? we have only run amok causing death and destruction
while creating more enemies daily. well i guess you can't have
permanent war without creating permanent enemies.

"Especially the Senate, which stands for election every two
years." Elections for all seats in the House of Representatives
occur every 2 years (a House term being 2 years). ~1/3 of the seats in
the Senate are available every 2 years (a Senate term being 6 years).

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